The 2022 S5000 Australian Drivers' Championship, known by its sponsored identity the Nulon S5000 Australian Drivers' Championship, was the second season of the

S5000 Australian Drivers' Championship The VHT S5000 Australian Drivers' Championship (known originally as the Australian S5000 Championship, or simply S5000) is a current open-wheel road racing series in Australia. The series was created by a merger between two proposed series, Form ...

Joey Mawson Joseph "Joey" Mawson (born 27 March 1996 in Sydney) is a professional racing driver from Australia, who is the current double champion of the Australian S5000 Championship. Career Mawson started his career in karting at the age of 7, and ...

, last years reigning champion, won the title again - only the ninth time in 60 years that the championship was successfully defended.

Teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers were competing in the 2022 championship:

Race calendar

The second S5000 season was originally supposed to start in late 2021, but after multiple postponements and cancellations, the organizers instead decided to hold a revived Tasman Series over the end of 2021, and start the second S5000 season in January 2022. In November 2021, it was announced that the S5000 series would take part in the 2022 Darwin Triple Crown. On December 15, the full calendar was released for the Australian and Tasman Championships. On 17 January 2022, Sydney was confirmed to hold the fourth round of the championship. On June 2, 2022, the sixth round at

Sandown Raceway Sandown International Raceway is a motor racing circuit in the suburb of Springvale in Melbourne, Victoria, approximately south east of the city centre. Sandown is considered a power circuit with its " drag strip" front and back straights be ...

, scheduled for September, was cancelled to avoid a three-month break between the last two rounds.

Race results

Drivers' standings

At each meeting, a qualifying session and three races were held. Meeting points were awarded to the fastest ten qualifiers in qualifying, where the grid for Race 1 was set. For Race 2, the top 75% from qualifying were reversed. The grid for the Main Event was defined by the points earned by the drivers across the weekend.

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